Category: Mountaineering
Climbing mountains (big, and not so big).
Just a quick one from me – sorry, no photos. Saturday – Kendal Wall. If you fall off whilst trying to clip above you, you go a looong way, no surprises there. However, if you try and inadvertantly slow yourself down by hitting your arse on all the holds on the adjacent wall, don’t expect …
Saturday morning dawned bright, clear, and cold. Plus it had snowed a lot up high on Thursday and Friday. This was the weather I had been hoping for for some time to get out and climb Bowfell Buttress in winter-nick.
The Hungarian system of mountaineer qualification has three steps...
Went up north for a long weekend...
Arête des Cosmiques - such a classic and I had never done it before!
This ultra-classic alpine rock-route had eluded me for so many years...
We had winter skills training up in Scotland this weekend with the rescue team, so Li'l Pete and I decided to take advantage by going up a day early and getting in a cheeky route on the Ben.
Tom and Jaquie came up from London on New Years Eve to stay the weekend and enjoy the snow.
